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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's second-largest property website Zoopla plans to list its shares on the London stock market next month to tap into rising confidence in the country's housing sector, potentially valuing the group at about 1 billion pounds ($1.7 billion). Majority owner Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) said Zoopla's existing owners planned to sell shares in June to institutional investors and the estate agents who pay to list properties on its websites. Zoopla, which was launched in 2008, trails Rightmove in the online property sector, drawing more than 40 million visits a month to its websites and mobile applications, compared with about 80 million visits for its larger rival.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Post Insurance is ramping up its investment in Japanese stocks and foreign bonds in a move that shows the government-controlled insurer is betting on the success of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies in pursuit of higher returns, according to disclosures and a person with knowledge of the investment strategy. The country's largest insurer, which has the equivalent of $846 billion in assets, is increasing its investment in Japanese stocks by an estimated 300-350 billion yen, or up to $3.5 billion, in the fiscal year that began in April, a rise of more than 50 percent from last year, according to the person, who asked not to be named because details of the developing portfolio shift have not been made public.

If you've had money in the average fund that invests in large-company stocks, you've made about 1.4 percent this year. But if you're enamored with the edgy, smaller companies that delivered tremendous gains last year, you've probably felt some pain lately. Small-company stocks, which have been the darlings of the market for the past few years, started sinking in early March. The Russell 2000 index, which reflects small-company stocks, is down about 9 percent since then, and Internet stocks such as Twitter have plunged more than 50 percent since last year.

My house is many things, but from outward appearances it's mostly a cross between a book depository, a recycling center and a biology lab that can't afford Petri dishes and decided to use leftover plastic ware from Chinese take-out. One thing a house isn't is an investment. But trying telling that to the folks who answered a recent Gallup poll, where "real estate" ranked as the best investment, followed by gold, stocks, savings accounts and CDs. (For some reason, the list omitted Mason Jars, lottery tickets and Serta Perfect Sleepers.)

AT&T plans to pay $48.5 billion to buy DirecTV , the top U.S. satellite TV operator, in a bid for growth beyond an increasingly competitive cellular market. The deal, announced on Sunday, comes as Comcast Corp awaits regulatory approval of its $45 billion bid for Time Warner Cable Inc, a transaction that has the potential to transform the television landscape by creating a new cable and broadband Internet powerhouse. AT&T said it is offering $95 per DirecTV share in a combination of stock and cash, a 10 percent premium over Friday's closing price of $86.18.

That's gonna leave a mark. A day after signing a new multiyear deal with Comcast's NBCUniversal to keep its flagship shows " Raw " and " SmackDown " on USA Network and Syfy, respectively, WWE 's stock took a nose dive off the top rope. Shares in the company were trading at around $11.51 mid-afternoon on Friday, losing $8.42 from its close on Thursday, or a whopping 42%. They were down to $10.59 earlier in the day. The stock instantly took a tumble on Thursday in after-hours trading after WWE released a statement revealing that the licensing fee it would get from the new NBCU deal wouldn't double its previous pact, which had been a target for the company during its negotiations.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Equity index provider MSCI reclassified equities across a broad spectrum of markets on Wednesday as part of its semi-annual review, adding among others U.S. social networking company Twitter Inc to its world index. It reclassified Qatar and United Arab Emirates to emerging market from frontier-market status as expected. Qatar will have a 0.47 percent weighting in the MSCI Emerging Market index , while UAE will have 0.58 percent. About $8 trillion is benchmarked to MSCI indexes.

JAKARTA/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A string of strong trading debuts in Indonesia could draw more companies to the Jakarta Stock Exchange this year, as share prices rise along with the prospect of political change. Shares of packaging and printing company PT Dwi Aneka Jaya Kemasindo rose as much as 10.6 percent above their initial public offering (IPO) price on their debut on Wednesday. On the same day, the benchmark share index reached a near one-year high after the second-largest political party declared support for the presidential candidacy of Jakarta Governor Joko "Jokowi" Widodo.

(Reuters) - U.S. stock fund expenses fell 4 percent last year while the sponsors of money market funds waived $5.8 billion in fees to shield investors from negative returns, an investment industry trade group said on Wednesday. Money market funds have waived nearly $24 billion in expenses over the past five years, according to a study by the Washington D.C.-based Investment Company Institute (ICI). Yields on money funds are next to nothing. They track short-term interest rates, which are skipping along rock bottom as the U.S. Federal Reserve tries to stimulate the economy with cheap money.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper sounded a cautious message on Wednesday, telling a ballroom packed with other managers and investors that he was "nervous" about the stock market but that this was not the time to sell. Billed as the star attraction at the $2.7 trillion industry's biggest annual event, Tepper discussed economic growth, central bank policies as well as his personal commitment to supporting local soup kitchens and food banks in his adopted home state.